I would like to give my students a web-based way to book appointments to see me which would then sync with my calendar. Features needed:
- They should be able to request a booking without registering and see my calendar with busy parts greyed out.
- I should be able to approve, modify or deny appointment requests and have the approval or denial notification sent to them.
I have been struggling with Timebridge for a while now which does much of this but it doesn’t let me modify students’ appointment requests – it only lets me approve them (if I want to suggest another time I have to do so by hand). It also doesn’t seem to check to see whether I am actually available when people try to book times.
With Google Calendar I can display my availability but as far as I can tell I would need to have students all register with GCal to add appointments and I would have to make each of them my ‘friend’. Same with Yahoo (which seems to have invented a new category called “special friends” who can edit calendar entries!). Calgoo seems not to be working and Doodle seems to require users to register and to require me to suggest times instead of the student.
Any ideas? Surely this is not too unusual a requirement?
